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<div style="font-size:162%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to '''Wikiwaves''',</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%;">the water waves wiki.</div>
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* [[:Category:Simple Linear Waves|Simple waves]]
* [[:Category:Linear Water-Wave Theory|Linear water waves]]
* [[:Category:Nonlinear Water-Wave Theory|Nonlinear water waves]]
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* [[:Category:Geophysics|Geophysics]]
* [[:Category:Offshore Engineering|Offshore engineering]]
* [[:Category:Ocean Wave Interaction with Ships and Offshore Structures|Wave and wave body interactions]]
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[[:Category:Reference|References]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Standard Notation|Standard notation]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[test | Test page]]
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Water waves are beautiful and their mathematics is fascinating, deep, and full of amazing results. Their understanding is also of great practical importance for the design of marine structures. 

This wiki is devoted to the mathematics of water waves and to providing an online reference to explain all aspects of their theory.  The wiki is a work in progress and strongly reflects the research interests of [[Michael Meylan]] who is doing most of work! However, you are strongly encouraged to contribute in any way you see fit (see [[Why you should contribute]]).

For a brief course in wave-body interactions begin with [[:Category:Ocean Wave Interaction with Ships and Offshore Structures|Wave and Wave Body Interactions]].
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*[[:Category:Eigenfunction Matching Method|Eigenfunction Matching Method]]: The eigenfunction matching method.
*[[:Category:Wave Scattering in the Marginal Ice Zone|Wave Scattering in the Marginal Ice Zone]]: A description of the geophysical problem in water wave scattering.  
*[[:Category:Interaction Theory|Interaction Theory]]: Presents the theory of multiple body interactions.
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* At the moment we are trying to link this wiki to computer code.
* We appreciate all and every edit - even fixing a typing mistake. 
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===About Us===
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This website is organised by [[Michael Meylan]] and [[WikiWaves:Administrators|others]]. It was initially supported by a grant from the 
[http://www.nzima.auckland.ac.nz/ New Zealand Institute of Mathematics]. 
A significant amount of the initial content was derived from the [http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html MIT opencourseware].